Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1916 — War Munitions Dumped Into Ocean at New York [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

War Munitions Dumped Into Ocean at New York

NEW YORK. —A few seconds of latitude out from Greenwich village, or about 40.20 and a jiffy or two of longitude off the Jersey shore a long ton of war munitions was with due formality cast into the sea with a splash. The occasion

was the annual blackjack and slungshot and seven-shooter excursion of the police department. Under the law, all the dangerous weapons taken by the police have to be destroyed. When the northeast end of the basement of headquarters becomes so cluttered with brass knuckles, derringers, knives and the like that the ceiling begins to bulge, and the property clerk can’t swing in his swivel chair, the management promptly fixes a date and arranges the ex-

cursion. The aquatic event began at noon, when three roomy motor cars backed up to the arsenal section of headquarters and were loaded with 5)78 revolvers, 366 dangerous weapons of various kinds and 109 shotguns and rifles, ail in crates. Amply guarded, the machines moved to pier No. 1 and the consignment was delivered on board the patrol of the marine division of the department Under Captain Keyes’ direction the patrol headed southeast from the lightship until it was 27 miles from 1 Broadway and three miles from the Scotland lightship, with nice rolling billow’s and gusts of the trade wind on all sides. Then, while the boat moved slowly, the weapons were dumped overboard. Among the revolvers were specimens of about every modern and ancient make of English, French, Belgian and German—automatics, old derringers, duelling pistols and small one-shot guns. There was also a gun-knife, or a knife-gun. The dangerous weapons included slungshots, bludgeons, blackjacks, leather billies, stilettos, stiletto canes, Turkish daggers and dirks. There were old Springfield rifles, sporting rifles and shotguns.